I'm baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack!

Irish Flute
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Hey everyone!

I just thought I’d post a quick message to say that I’m back from my medical mission to Tanzania. :party:

What an experience. NEVER have I seen so much African blackwood in one place. SO much of it. :boggle: Seriously, it made me wonder if any amount of musical instrument making could ever even dent the local consumption of the timber for the production of crap souvenir trinkets. I spent US$5 on a rhinoceros that’d probably make more than 10 whistles.

And, interestingly enough, I kind of miss hearing the muezzin call-to-prayer. There were mosques all over Dar es Salaam, even though the Tanganyikan mainland is mostly Christian.

So, hello, I’m back and will probably start posting again. Whoo-pee. :stuck_out_tongue:

Stuart

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Welcome back, Stuart! We missed ye!

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Welcome home or BAN!

:slight_smile:

Carol

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-Funny story of Dar es Salaam: A family friend, a stylish Mexican woman, moved to Dar when her husband took a teaching job there in the late 1970s. She was arrested while shopping one day due to her garment-a skirt one inch above the knee. She was booked briefly, tried, and sentenced to penance of sweeping streets for a day with local prostitutes, which she was assumed to be as well. She paid her debt to society cheerfully, and has dined out on this story for years.